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Reporter Nichelle Clarke’s dream of covering a presidential speech is dashed when she finds herself intertwined in a high-profile murder investigation. While Nichelle is no stranger to facing dangerous situations in pursuit of the truth, the stakes in this story are higher than ever before. Unsure of who she can trust, Nichelle must unravel a web of secrets behind an elaborate murder plot and dodge legal traps set by corrupt politicians. For if Nichelle can’t uncover the conspiracy in time, an unthinkable disaster will strike the nation.

Mitch Rapp ha perso la donna che amava nell'attacco terroristico di Lockerbie. Da allora la CIA ha trasformato la sua sete di giustizia in determinazione, addestrandolo e facendo di lui la più letale delle armi. Deciso a eliminare, uomo dopo uomo, la rete di colpevoli responsabile dell'attentato, Rapp sembra inarrestabile. Il prossimo obiettivo si nasconde a Parigi, ma nel momento stesso in cui il proiettile lascia la pistola di Mitch, una trappola gli si serra attorno.

While President Abigail Clarke attends a summit in Paris, an unknown enemy makes a brazen attempt on her life, inflicting horrific losses on her protection detail. Plunged into a battle beyond anything they could have trained for, Secret Service agents Rebecca Reid and David Stone must find a way to keep the president alive. The attackers have vast resources and would sacrifice everything for a devastating blow against America. The agents must be willing to do no less.

Nick Woods and his elite band of shooters from Shield, Safeguard, and Shelter (S3) deploy to Africa on their next mission to deal with an out-of-control terrorist group that now holds more than 20,000 square miles of land. This terrorist group, called the Boko Haram, has finally gotten the attention of America's leaders. Its tactics of abducting children and ruthlessly expanding its territory pose a threat to Nigeria and the countries surrounding it.

Darcy, a restless young artist, travels to the Soviet Union to visit his elusive half-sister, Fin. Upon his arrival in the depths of a bleak Moscow winter, Darcy is immediately embroiled in Fin's mysterious life there and also drawn to Moscow's forbidden underground, finding himself swept up in political and sexual intrigues of a nature he could never have imagined.

Lorsque Alexander Concklin et Morris Panov, anciens membres de la CIA, reçoivent le même télégramme signé du nom de Jason Bourne, ils sont loin de penser que les fantômes du passé peuvent se réveiller. Jason Bourne n'a jamais existé aux yeux du monde. C'est le nom de code de David Webb, homme traqué devenu amnésique à la suite d'un mystérieux accident. Treize ans après, il reprend bien malgré lui du service.

Un affreux massacre a eu lieu près de Hong Kong. Un même nom revient sur toutes les lèvres : Jason Bourne. Jason Bourne est de retour ! Mais pour qui travaille-t-il ? Une seule certitude : le "roi des tueurs" menace de plonger l'Extrême-Orient dans le chaos. Aux États-Unis, des hommes s'interrogent. Ils savent que le massacre ne peut avoir été perpétré par Bourne. Car Jason Bourne n'a jamais existé. Ce nom - ce mythe -, ils l'ont eux-mêmes créé afin de piéger le tueur international Carlos.

El asesinato de la mujer del ministro se mantiene en secreto. El momento del país es delicado. Si la noticia salta a los medios, tal vez no llegue a firmarse nunca el documento que cambiaría para siempre la relación entre el ejército y las empresas de seguridad privada. Defensiva, la compañía líder en el sector, es la principal sospechosa del crimen. El tiempo se agota.

Los Angeles single mother Jessie Shapiro restores paintings for a living, but ever since her divorce from unfaithful musician Pat, she can barely make ends meet. One weekend Pat fails to bring their 10-year-old daughter, Kate, home. When Jessie goes to his Venice Beach house, she hears a disturbing cut-off message on his answering machine and discovers strange foreign words written in big block letters on his kitchen blackboard. Then her life is threatened.

Jahrelang war Court Gentry auf der Flucht vor der CIA. Inoffiziell wieder rehabilitiert, soll er nun einen jungen chinesischen Cyberhacker finden, der aus der Volksrepublik nach Hongkong desertiert ist. Die Amerikaner wollen den Flüchtling lebend, die Chinesen wollen ihn liquidieren, weil er alle Schwächen ihrer geheimsten Computernetzwerke kennt. Aber was will der Computercrack? Und warum ist er überhaupt geflohen? Hongkong ist nur der Beginn einer gnadenlosen Hetzjagd durch Südostasien.

La journaliste Anne-Marie Bérubé se rend à une conférence de presse dans un hôtel de Gatineau, où on doit présenter un nouveau programme de lutte à l’évasion fiscale. Un attentat meurtrier survient et prend tout le monde par surprise. La nouvelle fait le tour de la planète en un temps record. Qui a orchestré l’attaque ? Qu’est-il arrivé à Anne-Marie ? A-t-elle été blessée ? Est-elle morte ?

Leningrad in Angst und Schrecken – Leutnant Rossel jagt einen rätselhaften Serienmörder. Winter 1953: In der weißen Hölle eines sibirischen Gulags ist der ehemalige Leutnant Revol Rossel dem Tod näher als dem Leben, als er überraschend gerettet wird – ausgerechnet von dem Mann, den er mehr als jeden anderen hasst: Major Nikitin. Seinetwegen wird der virtuose Geiger Revol nie wieder eine Violine halten können.

A shadowy group of biohackers called the Firemen threaten to worsen the COVID pandemic by releasing an even more lethal version of the pathogen. But what drives the Firemen, and how do their motivations relate to the wealth of the Roman Empire and to the third basic human instinct? The answers may lie with prediction scientist Dan Clifford. Unemployed and struggling with two years of pandemic isolation, he is rebuilding both his career and personal life.

Als Wladimir Putin im Januar 2000 Staatspräsident wird, verlässt der reich gewordene Rohstoffhändler Anton fluchtartig Moskau. Hinter ihm liegen acht atemraubende Jahre im postsowjetischen Raubtier-Kapitalismus, vor ihm gähnende Langeweile im gutsituierten Milieu New Yorks. Doch auch mit vierzig ist Anton noch immer ein unverbesserlicher Romantiker auf der Suche nach dem nächsten Kick. Da macht ihm ein Headhunter ein verlockendes Angebot. Anton soll im an Bodenschätzen so reichen Kasachstan mit Geld aus anonymen Quellen einen Stahlkonzern aufbauen.

Samira is an up-and-coming TV journalist, working the nightshift at a major news channel and yearning for greater things. So when she’s offered a trip to the Middle East, with Kris, the station’s brilliant but impetuous star photographer, she leaps at the chance. In the field together, Sami and Kris feel invincible, shining a light into the darkest of corners…except the newsroom, and the rest of the world, doesn’t seem to care as much as they do. Until Kris takes the photograph.

A riveting political thriller and love story. Set primarily in contemporary Russia and the United States, here is a novel that brilliantly knits together four seemingly unconnected lives: Adam, a CIA intelligence operative who suffers from albinism and searches for the Russian assassin who killed his mother, an act he witnessed as a child; Lily, a young Hawaiian Chinese journalist who falls in love with him; Bazil, an Indian intelligence operative from Mumbai who befriends Adam; and Zahira, a beautiful Afghani girl mutilated by the Taliban.

Fans du "Bureau des légendes", découvrez le "Service Action", l'unité spéciale de la DGSE en charge des opérations les plus secrètes, clandestines et illégales de la République. Août 2020, Beyrouth. Le lieutenant-colonel Coralie Desnoyers, chasseur alpin et sniper d'élite, sauve le président de la République d'un attentat. Quelques semaines plus tard, elle devient la première femme à diriger le Service Action. Elle doit s'imposer comme patronne de ce groupe dans un monde dominé par les hommes, tout en accomplissant les missions à très hauts risques de "l'Action".

The success of the ‘Smiling Buddha' nuclear test marked the rise of India as a nuclear power in 1974. But what went unreported in the media was the nuclear fallout that had lasting impact on the inhabitants of Pokhran, especially Chaitanya. It quickly becomes clear that the conspiracy surrounding this radioactive fallout runs pretty deep in the establishment. Those who have had a hand in covering it up are willing to go to great lengths to ensure that the secrets stay buried. Chaitanya sets on a journey to expose the truth.

Il primo attentato di matrice islamica mai realizzato in Italia sconvolge Milano, durante una gara podistica di fine estate. Il paese si paralizza, piange e sopporta gli strilli di politici, giornalisti e sciacalli. La nazione si distrae così dall'ultimo trauma: Paolo Bonomelli, politico stimato e in grande ascesa, è appena stato travolto da uno scandalo sessuale.

Paris, 1981: Die Hauptstadt der ehemaligen Kolonialmacht ist für viele vietnamesische Flüchtlinge der rettende Hafen nach einer langen Irrfahrt über die Weltmeere. Auch der namenlose Ich-Erzähler und sein bester Freund Bon haben es aus ihrer Heimat nach Europa geschafft. Auf der Suche nach einem Job geraten sie an die vietnamesische Drogenmafia. Als Dealer machen sie ein gutes Geschäft, und der Ich-Erzähler, ein ehemaliger kommunistischer Spion, profitiert von einem Wirtschaftssystem, das er eigentlich ablehnt.